Preserving GMO free agriculture production in Hungary

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Preserving GMO free agriculture production in
Hungary

• Chamber of Agriculture
• Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary
• Balázs Kormos

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Current legislation

• 1998. XXVII. law on gene technology
• Modification by 2003.LXVII. Law EU law
  harmonisation
• EU regulations are obligatory in Hungary, but
  directives are calling for national legislation

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• Brief content of 1998-2003 law
• GMO products should be labelled
• Authorisation procedure
• Transportation of GMO products
• By-products and waste matter manipulation/disposal
  
• Keeping records
• Isolation
• Environment and nature protection measures

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Petition of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture
to the Ministry Of Agriculture

• New law should be prepared until February 2005.
• Commercial distribution and import should be
  authorized on occasion.
• 20 of the value as retention, payback 3 month
  after the end of production cycle.
• At least 1000m isolation of GMO plantations.

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• The producer of GMO seeds or commercial products
  should publicize the exact location and area of
  the GMO plant fields 3 month before sowing.
• The producer should pay a collateral (at least
  100EUR/acre, that should be used as a
  compensation if the conventional producers
  plantation gets contaminated, or if the producer
  of contaminated seeds do not want to sell its
  contaminated product the GMO seed producer must
  buy it.

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• The distributor of GMO seeds should buy all the
  crop that has been produced by its seed material.
• The costs of laboratory tests for the producers
  of non-GMO crop should be paid by farmers who
  produce GMO products in the 1500m distance.
• The Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture would
  welcome the total ban of GMO production in
  Hungary to preserve our country as a GMO free
  region.

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Thank you for your attention!